Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2003, 4:19 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2003, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2003, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 212019 SVRATL GAC045-212045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 PM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARROLLTON AND EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3362 8505 3346 8508 3345 8501 3363 8491 $$ RAB WUUS52 KFFC 212019 CCA SVRATL GAC045-212045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 PM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARROLLTON AND EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3362 8505 3346 8508 3345 8501 3363 8491 $$ RAB
1 follow-up statement
000 WUUS52 KFFC 212019 CCA SVRATL GAC045-212045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 PM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARROLLTON AND EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. LAT...LON 3362 8505 3346 8508 3345 8501 3363 8491 $$ RAB
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.